Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.” MIT
"Rex Yanakakis, adopted as a baby, then orphaned when he was nineteen, used his genius mind and inheritance to get a degree in computer science at MIT, and then start his own company.”
Seattle Symphony “...he saw my mom play in the Seattle Symphony and didn’t stop sending her white roses by the dozen until she agreed to see him. ” American Express Card
“My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to the general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.”
Tahiti“his idea of quality time was a two-week trip twice a year, usually to somewhere exotic like Tahiti or Morocco. ”
Morocco
slick move "...he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. They ended up naming it for him. Quite a slick move, I’d say. It basically guaranteed his continued generous support.”
Literary Devices “This wonder boy was gifted in math and sciences, big shocker there. Plus I still studied Mandarin.”
“Maybe the hardest fact to swallow was that, despite his being my father, I didn’t know any more about the man than the general public might find out by reading his biography.”
“Not wanting to forget his roots, he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. ”
“They lived the sweet life. Happily ever after and all that crap.”
Chapter 5
Allusions and other References
All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”
MIT
"Rex Yanakakis, adopted as a baby, then orphaned when he was nineteen, used his genius mind and inheritance to get a degree in computer science at MIT, and then start his own company.”
Seattle Symphony
“...he saw my mom play in the Seattle Symphony and didn’t stop sending her white roses by the dozen until she agreed to see him. ”
American Express Card
“My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to the general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.”
Tahiti“his idea of quality time was a two-week trip twice a year, usually to somewhere exotic like Tahiti or Morocco. ”
Morocco
slick move
"...he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. They ended up naming it for him. Quite a slick move, I’d say. It basically guaranteed his continued generous support.”
Vocabulary and Concepts
threshold
de'ja' vu
bid us adieu
orphaned
orphanage
genius
naming it for him
Literary Devices
“This wonder boy was gifted in math and sciences, big shocker there. Plus I still studied Mandarin.”
“Maybe the hardest fact to swallow was that, despite his being my father, I didn’t know any more about the man than the general public might find out by reading his biography.”
“Not wanting to forget his roots, he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. ”
“They lived the sweet life. Happily ever after and all that crap.”